BEVERLY NAIDUS http://www.beverlynaidus.net [email protected] ________________________________________________________________________________ EDUCATION Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax, N.S., Canada - MFA degree in Intermedia (1976- 78) (mentors/advisors included Mira Schor, Krzysztof Wodiczko & Laurie Anderson) Carleton College, Northfield, MN - BA degree, Cum Laude, Distinction in Studio Art (1971-75) Graphic Design, Illustration & Typography, Parson’s School of Art & Design, NYC (1982) Drawing at the Art Students’ League, NYC (1972) Trainings with Augusto Boal (1998), Joanna Macy (1987-2017), Thich Nhat Hanh (1989- 2011) SELECTED EXHIBITIONS SOLO SHOW S and INSTALLATION PROJECTS 2019 - Extreme Makeover: Reimagining the Port of Tacoma Free of Fossil Fuels, interactive community art project in collaboration with 350 Tacoma & Arts Bridging Communities 2018 – We Almost Didn’t Make It, CoCA, Seattle and ONCA Gallery, Brighton, England Extreme Makeover: The Creative Remediation of a Superfund Site, interactive community art project, Tacoma, WA 2017 – The Nightmare Quilt (Revival), Seattle Presents Gallery What Will You Do for Clean Water? Standing Rock Exhibit and Fundraiser, installation & collaboration with Antonio Jose Garcia Cano, Paramount Theater, Seattle 2016 – Wrestling with the Uneasy Present, Performance, Whitney Art Building, Tacoma, WA 2015 – CURTAIN CALL: Portable Altars for Grief and Gratitude, Seattle University 2014 – AND NOW Behind Curtain #2: The Perils and Rewards of Activism and CURTAIN CALL: Portable Altars for Grief and Gratitude, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH 2012 – AND NOW Behind Curtain #2, Northwest Folk Life Festival, Seattle Center & Wallingford Center, Seattle 2010-11 –Eden Reframed, Ecological and Community Art Project on Vashon Island funded by the Royalty Research Foundation, UW, and Reframing Eden, Valise Gallery, Vashon, WA 2009 – underGROUND: Artifacts of this Moment, VALISE Gallery, Vashon, WA 2007 – Beverly Naidus – Digital Prints, Two Walls Gallery, Vashon, WA; One Size DOES NOT Fit All Revisited, Bradley International Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles 2006 – One Size Does Not Fit All Revisited, Raclin Gallery, Indiana University, South Bend 2005 – AND NOW Behind Curtain #2, Spielraume, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisberg, Germany 2004 – Kuan Yin Breathes the Bomb and Other Healing Deities, Pioneer Sq. Healing Arts, Seattle Healing Deities, Luna Café, Vashon, WA; Beverly Naidus – Recent Work, UW Tacoma Gallery 2003 – Canary Notes: The Personal Politics of Environmental Illness, Blue in Green: Human Rights & the Environment, Concordia University, Montreal; Healing Deities, Art Bank, Shelburne Falls, MA; √Other: Breaking Out of the Box, William Paterson College, NJ 2002 – Healing Deities, Franklin Medical Center, Greenfield, MA; Canary Notes, School of Nursing, UMass, Amherst 2001 – √Other: Breaking Out of the Box, Augusta Savage Gallery, U Mass, Amherst 2000 – Canary Notes, The Institute for Social Ecology, VT 1999 – Canary Notes, Art Bank, Shelburne Falls, MA 1995 – One Size Does Not Fit All as part of "Social Engagements" L.A. Municipal Gallery, Barnsdell Art Park, Hollywood, CA 1993 – One Size Does Not Fit All, Montgomery Gallery, Pomona, CA 1993 – One Size Does Not Fit All as part of “Backtalk: Women's Voices in the 90's” Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum and C.P. Shades, One Size Fits All? Highways, Santa Monica 1992 – One Size Does Not Fit All as part of “Vantage Points,” WCA exhibit, Cal Poly Pomona, CA; A Klug Tzu Columbus (A Curse on Columbus), Angels' Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA 1991 – REMOTE CONTROL as part of Teetering Relationships: Earth/People, Orange County Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Ana, CA; The Fat Book Series, Envy Hair Salon, Long Beach; Please take a Numb-er and THIS IS NOT A TEST, Walker Building, Public Corporation for the Arts, Long Beach REMOTE CONTROL, South Bay Contemporary Museum, Torrance, CA 1990 – Please take a Numb-er, Central Coast Plaza Shopping Mall (Arternatives), San Luis Obispo, CA, Taking the Empire's New Clothes to the Laundry, Unitarian Church, Long Beach, CA 1989 – WILL YOU STOP DEPRESSING ME?! – Work by Beverly Naidus, CSU Northridge Gallery, CA 1988 – YOU'RE SUCH A COMPLAINER, Saddleback Community College, Mission Viejo, CA; YOU'RE SO NEGATIVE, Todd Madigan Galleries, CSU Bakersfield, CA 1987 – THIS IS NOT A TEST, Long Beach Museum of Art, CA 1985 – THIS IS NOT A TEST, sponsored by Peace Links/Peace Child, YWCA, Minneapolis 1985 – BEVERLY NAIDUS, M.A.D.Gallery, Carleton College, MN 1984 – THIS IS NOT A TEST as part of The End of the World: Contemporary Visions of the Apocalypse, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC 1982 – No Bed of Roses as part of Carnival Knowledge, The New School Gallery, NYC; 1981 – The Party's Over, No More Mr. Nice Guy, Printed Matter Window, NYC 1980 – The Sky Is Falling, The Sky Is Falling: A Panacea for Pre-Millenium Tension, Issue–Social Strategies by Women Artists, curated by Lucy Lippard, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England; Apply Within, Franklin Furnace, NYC 1979 – Daily Reminder, Committee for the Visual Arts, 22 Beaver Street Space, NYC 1978 – THIS IS NOT A TEST, NSCAD Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2019 – Culture, Tacoma Community College Gallery 2018 – You Are Here, Too: Map Art at Good Arts Gallery, Seattle 2017 – Art Trumps, Bonfire Gallery, Seattle; They Put Children in Cages, Street Performance with ARTifACTs; The Book, Embodied, SAIC Flaxman Library Exhibitions, Chicago 2016 – The Perils and Rewards of Activism Game, Park(ing) Day, Tacoma 2014 – Relay for Life Exhibition, Vashon, WA, Reunion Exhibition, VALISE Gallery, Vashon 2012 – Ossuary: A Project, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison Wisconsin, Sexism Today, UCLA; Transformation, Dramen Sacred Music Festival, Norway; Capital Crime$, BC Space, Laguna Beach, CA: Atomic Legacy, Bioneers 2011 – A Show about Colab, Printed Matter, New York City, Woman of the Book, The Park School Gallery, Baltimore, MD 2 2010 – Crunchtime2010 - Art and Global Crisis, City of York, United Kingdom, What Matters Most? sponsored by EcoArtspace, Exit Art Gallery, NYC; VALISE Gallery, Vashon, WA 2009 – Radical Detour, Berkshire Festival (Women in the Arts), Berkshire Art Kitchen, Pittsfield Tikkunim: Jewish Roots/Ecological Art, Howard House, Seattle, WA; Carry On, VALISE Gallery, Vashon, WA; Olympia/Rafah Solidarity Mural, Rachel Corrie Foundation, Olympia, WA; Web of Fears, VALISE Gallery; Art and All That Jazz, Blue Heron Gallery, Vashon, WA; Green Sight and Sound, Ecoartspace, San Francisco, CA 2008 – A Peace of Vashon, Café Luna, Vashon; Just How Does a Patriot Act: A Response to U.S. Policy at Home and Abroad, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA; Up Against the Two Walls: The Art of Democracy, Two Walls Gallery, Vashon, WA Conventions and Attitudes: Responding to the 2008 U.S. Elections, Remy's On Temple, Los Angeles, CA and CUNY Graduate Center Gallery, NYC; Death of the Bush Era. What Next? Social and Public Art Resource Center, Venice, CA; Iraqi Memorial – Commemorating Civilian Deaths, online exhibition curated by Joseph DeLappe, University of Nevada, Reno; Women’s History Month Exhibition, King’s Bookstore, Tacoma, Creating Art, Promoting Change: Works by Jewish Women organized by the Hadassah Institute of Brandeis University, Miami & LA 2007 – Weather Report: Art & Climate Change curated by Lucy Lippard, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado 2006 – Earthly Concerns: Activist Eco-Art curated by WEAD: Women Environmental Artists, Thacher Gallery, U of San Francisco; Ecoart, Bioneers Conference, San Rafael, CA Addressing Iraq: Mail-Art About the War, The Reitz Gallery, University of Florida 2004 – One Size Does Not Fit All, UCLA Powell Library's Forum, Los Angeles; Art of Resistance Exhibition, Arts Brewery, Seattle 2003 – Women of the Book, Purdue University, Indiana; Words on Fire, Star Gallery, Boston 2002 – Women of the Book, La Sierra University, Riverside, CA 2001 – Dreaming: Prophesies, Speculations, and Good Guesses, August Savage Gallery, U Mass, Amherst; Women of the Book, MN Center for Book Arts, Mpls & the Athenaeum of La Jolla, CA; International Contemporary Environmental Art Festival, Pusan, Korea 2000 – Distorted Visions: An Introspective on Body Image & the Female Psyche, UCLA College Library, Los Angeles; Women of the Book curated by Judith Hoffberg traveled to Brattleboro Museum, VT; Florida Atlantic U, Atlanta, Southwest Missouri State U 1999 – What Will You Miss? Invitational, Georgia State U, Atlanta, GA, Women of the Book, Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutztown University, PA (traveled to U of Arizona Museum, University of Pennsylvania Special Collections Library, Saginaw Museum, MI) 1999 – A Gathering of Angels, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA. Group Photo Show, Hampshire College Gallery, MA, Broadcast, Eagle Rock Cultural Center, CA 1998 – Faculty Exhibit, Heritage State Park, Holyoke, MA 1997 – Drawing from the Source, Miriam Cup Invitational Exhibition, Ma’yan, JCC, NYC; Splice Show, Side Street Projects, Santa Monica, CA; Women of the Book, Finegood Art Gallery, Los Angeles; Broadcast, Clarion University Gallery, Clarion, PA; Too Jewish, The UCLA Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, (also traveled to The Contemporary, Baltimore, the San Francisco Jewish Museum, and the Jewish Museum of Philadelphia) 1996 – Too Jewish – Challenging Traditional Identities, The Jewish Museum, NYC Faculty exhibition, Art Bank, Shelburne Falls, MA 1995 – Show Your Self,